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Irish
"dark moor"
This Celtic surname is familiar but barely used at all as a first name.
English
"moor with elm trees"
Boys' names beginning with "El" were all the rage in the 1910s, but today Elmore - along with Elwin, Ellsworth and others - has barely been used for decades. It has literary connections through…
"town near the moor"
An English family name used a few generations ago as an Anglicization of Moses, but hardly heard since th 1950s.
Scottish
"dweller near the moor"
A common family name in Scotland, occasionally used as a first.